Month: October 2016

Addressed to my guilty conscience. To be very blunt (at least to start off with): A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My symptoms include exercise intolerance, post-exertional malaise, joint and muscle pain akin to fibromyalgia, flu-like symptoms, sleep disturbances, and cognitive dysfunction; the latter of which I go into particular… Continue reading I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

I am just under five feet and eight inches tall. I weigh fifteen stone and eleven pounds. I am a size 18 on top and a 16 on bottom. I don’t know my bra size, because the last time I bought a bra was well over a year ago, and even then I wasn’t measured… Continue reading I take up too much space

Aspiring novelist’s non-fiction outlet discussing mental health, emotional life, and the general in-betweenness of being a 20-something. Also occasionally knitting.

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'I don't know how more people haven't got mental health problems, thinking is one of the hardest things I've come across, and when I can't articulate what I want to say it drives me crazy. Sometimes, when I'm at a really noisy train station, one of the ones with the big fat trains like King's Cross, I feel like putting down my bags and shouting things out, because I've Got Something To Say.' - Kate Nash, Don't You Want to Share the Guilt?